Perpetuos

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy's 60 Fotos published in 1930 as the first book in the planned Fototek series on 'New Photography', 60 Fotos is a complex and multi-layered dialogue using some of Moholy-Nagy's finest examples of 'straight' photographs, negative prints, photograms, and photomontage. Books on Books no. 12 reproduces every page spread from this classic treatise on photography along with a contemporary essay from the noted photo-historian David Evans

Las fotografías históricas tomadas en América Latina han puesto en evidencia su valor como sitios cruciales de la política de la memoria, la imaginación etnográfica y la negociación de la identidad. Este volumen abre un conjunto de preguntas relacionadas con la agencia contemporánea de este tipo de imágenes, así como su apropiación actual a través de nuevas tecnologías.

Nadar, whose real name was Felix Tournachon (1820-1910), was a conspicuous, even astonishing presence in nineteenth-century France. Engaging and quick-witted, he invented himself over and over as a bohemian writer, a journalist, a romantic utopian, a caricaturist, a portrait photographer, a balloonist, an entrepreneur, a prophet of aeronautics. The name "Nadar" was on everyone's lips. Today, it is Nadar's photography that is remembered. His sitters, who were often his friends, included the great men and women of his time: Dumas, Rossini, Baudelaire, Sarah Bernhardt, Daumier, Berlioz, George...

A collection of photographs by some of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century which demonstrate the wide range of techniques that have been used by photographers during the past one hundred years.